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ضرسم

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to describe something or someone that is soft, weak, or ignoble. It is also used as a proper name for a body of water.

Derived headwords

ضِرْسَامَةadjective
  1. 1.
    soft, weak, ignobleclassical

    Describing a person as soft, weak, and ignoble, or generally as a term of bad repute, stemming from weakness or baseness.

ضِرْسَامname
  1. 1.
    name of a water sourceclassical

    A proper name for a specific body of water.

Parallel reading

الضرسامة الرخو اللئيم.
The ḍirsāmah is the soft, ignoble one.
ورجل ضرسامة: نعت سوء من الفسالة ونحوها.
And a man who is ḍirsāmah: a term of bad repute, from weakness and the like.
وضرسام: اسم ماء؛
And Ḍirsām: a name of a water source;
قال النمر بن تولب: أرمي بها بلدا ترميه عن بلد، ... حتى أنيخت على أحواض ضرسام
Al-Nāmir ibn Ṭulb said: I traverse with it (my mount) a land that throws it from one land to another, ... until I dismount at the pools of Ḍirsām.